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The truly blessed man
The truly blessed man: or, The way to be happy here, and for ever: being the substance of divers sermons preached on, Psalm XXXII. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. N.E. ; [Five lines from Isaiah]
printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1700
Sermon › The safety of pardoned ones in worst times. DOCTRINE.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. How far such an one may be assailed by these Floods?
A. This may be considered on a double account.
1. There may be public calamities great and sore, ⟨p. 363⟩that may befall Gods people after this, in which they may have a great share. Possibly David may have a special respect to this, in our Text. When overflowing Evils come upon a Sinful Land, they shall not come nigh him; but this is not always literally so; thus men may be as deeply exercised with the common calamity as another: his concerns are not exempted from the evil events of such troubles; the righteous and the wicked often share alike at such times, Ezek. 23.1.
1. There may be publick calamities great and sore, ⟨p. 363⟩that may befal Gods people after this, in which they may have a great share. Possibly David may have a special respect to this, in our Text. When overflowing Evils come upon a Sinful Land, they shall not come nigh him; but this is not always literally so; thus men may be as deeply exercised with the common calamity as another: his concerns are not exempted from the evil events of such troubles; the righteous and the wicked often share alike at such times, Ezek. 23.1.